Disclaimer: The characters and place in this story belong to J.R.R. Tolkien. They are not my own! Though they are precious to me.
Ale: It's Addicting
Chapter 1 - A Strange night in Lorien
This was a fair night in the land of Lorien. The stars shining high above. Every golden leaf glimmering in the moon light. The fellowship of the One Ring was taking some time to be surrounded by the slender of this ageless land. Their quest seemed meaningless under the leafs of this wood. In fact this night the hobbits were taking some time to have a bit of ale, which Aragorn had provided for them.
Beneath a tall tree and surrounded by some low bushes they sat in slender. Very merry they were at this time in each others company. They had no thoughts beyond that tree and those bushes. Though this would be a strange night indeed.
In the grey dwellings of that night Galadriel, queen of Lorien, was taking a walk beneath her wood. Suddenly and to her surprise she spotted the merry folk drinking their ale and smoking their long wooden pipes. Things that they have had little opportunity to do during their long journey. She glares over one of the bushes at this strange event within Lorien.
"Never before have such acts been performed within the walls of Lorien," she tells them.
"We are sorry, Lady, we didn't know," they said surprised by her appearing.
"What are you drinking anyways?"
"It's ale, and some of finest we've tasted, brought to us by Strider," Sam tells her.
"Is it really good?"she asks.
"Yes very, would you like some?" Frodo offers.
"Maybe I will try some hobbit drink. What harm could it cause?"
The hobbits are very surprised by this. Yet, she steps within the circle of bushes and tree. She sits beside Frodo on the fair grass. Frodo hands her a mug of ale and she drinks it slowly.
"Not bad" she told the hobbits, putting a smile on their faces. And so began one of the strangest nights under the trees of Lorien.
Galadriel had never tasted such a drink. Not even across the wide sea. This would be a night that she would never forget the rest of her long immortal life, what she could remember of it at least.
"From where does this drink come?" Galadriel asked the hobbits.
"We don't know. Although us hobbits have drunken it for many years," Pippen answers.
"Well it should have come to Lorien sooner. This a very good drink."
Many hours the hobbits and elf sat under the woods of Lorein. Drinking their ale and smoking their pipes. Although Galadriel took no pipe. She seemed to be very content with the new drink she had been given.
"Would you like another pint Galadriel?" Merry askes.
"We have pints?" Pippen said astonished.
"Yes didn't you know?" Merry tells him.
"No, nobody tells me anything. Give me one!" Pippen said taking a pint from Merry.
"Well would you like one Galadriel?" he asked.
"I probably shouldn't" she tells him. "OK" he says. "But I will!" she said as she greedily grabs it out of the hobbit's astonished hand. They sat their drinking and smoking for another hour at least. Galadriel loved this new found drink. Maybe even a little too much.
"Galadriel I don't think that you should have any more," Frodo told her.
"Why not?"
"You're drunk."
"No I'm not," she demands and tries to get up but falls back to the luckily soft ground.
"Yes you are."
"Don't you yell at me little bunny! Hey bunnies can talk! That's cool!"
"I think you've had quite enough," Sam said while trying to grab the mug of ale from the elf. But she pulled it back and drank more of the addicting drink. Once she was done with that mug she asked "Please sir I want some more! Can you hand me another please, little squirrel!"
"My name is Samwise" he protested without success.
"Samwise the sqirrel!"
She got her wish for more. She drank more of this addicting drink. So she became more and more drunk. The hobbits see that she can't stop.
"Sam go get Celeborn," Frodo told him.
"Why should I? Why don't you?" Sam protested.
"Celeborn needs to get her to bed. So I asked you to get him."
"No, you told me to. Stop telling me to do stuff for you!"
"I just want you to get Celeborn."
"What if I say no?" Sam asked and stands up. Frodo stands in from of him. They stare at each other for a while.
"Fight! Fight!" Pippen and Merry yell. At this Sam and Frodo attack each other. They fall over one of the bushes into a puddle of water. At this moment Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir, and Legolas spot them and rush over to break them up. Aragorn and Boromir grab Frodo, Gimli and Legolas grab Sam and get them seperated.
"What is going on here?" Aragorn asked.
"The rabbit started it," Galadriel said from on the ground, behind the bush. Aragorn looks over the bush at the drunken elf. "Hello! Want a drink?" she offered then took another drink and falls back laughing. Then he looked back at the hobbits with a glare in his eyes.
"What did you hobbits do?" Aragorn asked sternly.
"We just gave her a bit of ale," they cried "You gave it to us!"
"You stupid half lings!" Boromir yelled.
"Lady are you ok?" Legolas asked her.
She sat back up and her laughing ceased as she answered him. "I'm fine fellow elf, why wouldn't I be? These nice little squirrels and rabbits gave me some, um, um, well I don't know what it was," she said.
"I'm going to get the Lord!" Legolas demanded.
"No Don't!" she yells. She gets up to protest, and attempts to run over to Legolas. However, her foot catches a root of the tree and she tips over it landing on her face. Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn rush over to help her up.
"Are you ok Galadriel?" Gimli asks as he grabs her arm to help her up.
"Oh! I'm fine," she says laughing. The three help her to her feet and set her down by the giant tree. She falls on her back laughing.
Galadriel opens her eyes and looks up at the trees. She has finally stopped laughing. Now the hallucinations begin to come over her eyes. She begins to see ents walking in the trees. So she starts up in song. "The ents go marching one by one hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching one by one hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching one by one, the little one stops to suck his thumb. The ents go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain."
"We really need to get Celeborn," Legolas said.
"Yes we do, but I'll be to blame too. I don't want to know what kind of punishment the Lord would put on me," Aragorn tells them while Galadriel was still laying on the ground singing. "The ents go marching two by two hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching two by two hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching two by two, the little one stops to tie his shoe. The ents go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain." Galadriel continues to sing the song.
In all the commotion the four hobbits try to slip away unseen through the bushes. They don't want to be there once Celeborn finally arrives after the Lady's long protest. However, Aragorn spots them and steps in front of the bush.
"Where d you think you're going?" Aragron asked the hobbits.
"We're, um, well, you see...," they said while jumping to their feet.
"The Lord is going to have great punishment for the five of us," Aragorn said.
"So we don't have to tell him?!" Pippen tried.
"We have to tell him. He'll find out anyways. Even if we don't tell him, he'll find out and have a greater punishment for us. Dang it!!" Aragorn said.
"Frodo why did you offer her ale?!" Sam asked.
"I did not!"
"Yes you did."
"Don't blame it all on me."
"You did it!"
"Fine! So what if I did?! You all didn't stop me so that makes you at fault too!"
"Why I oughtta!"
"You oughtta what?" Frodo asked taunting him.
Sam lungs at Frodo and knocks him to the ground. They start to wrestle. Pippin is rutting for Frodo and Merry for Sam.
"Go Frodo! Get him!" Pippin yells.
"On Sam! Kick him where it counts!" Merry yelled.
"Do you think we should brake up the half lings?" Boromir asked Aragorn.
"No. They should work this out by themselves. We'll brake them up in a few minutes if they don't stop.
It went on like this for about five or so minutes. Then Aragorn and Boromir decide it's time for them to stop. So they go to brake them up, but it doesn't quite work. Boromir has his nose broken by punch from Frodo. Aragorn is hit where it counts by Sam and they both retreat in pain.
So Legolas and Gimli decide to try to brake them up. Gimli grabs Frodo and Legolas grabs Sam. Frodo gives Gimli a black eye, and Sam kicks Legolas where it counts as well. They both retreat in pain.
Finally Galadriel stands up and yells at them. "Stop!!!" She demands. So they separate. However, she goes right back to the ground laughing.
"You four go get Celeborn now! And no more fighting!" Aragorn demands.
"Fine!" they said and stuck out their tongues at him. So he slaps them on their heads. They then ran off to find Celeborn. Frodo tripped Sam as they were running so they start to fight again. Aragorn yells at them and they stop, and run off.
"Lord we must come in," they said when they got to his doorway.
"Very well," he says so they walk over to him "have you seen Galadriel tonight? She seems to be missing."
"Yeah, uh, about that..." Frodo said and the four told him the story of that night.
"You idiot hobbits! That drink should never have been brought into Lorien!"
"Strider brought it to us!" Sam protested.
"And I shall deal with him in due time. Now, take me to Galadriel!" he demands.
Meanwhile Legolas, Gimli, Boromir and Aragorn sat with Galadriel. She was still laughing singing. She kept going between songs, from 'The ents go marching' to 'Coconuts'. The Coconut song goes, as she knows it, 'I've got a lovely bunch of coconut, diddidiididdi, all stading in a row. Big ones small ones some the size of your head.'
Galadriel stops singing and looks with wonder at little lights flying around her. They keep coming on and going off. Very exciting to a drunk elf.
"Why are there little fires flying around us?" She asked in wonder.
"They are only fireflies Lady," Gimli told her.
"Wow! That is so cool! Fire can fly all around, yet we not get burnt by them landing on us! Wow!" so she looked with wonder at these strange flying, flickering lights. Things that she has known many years, but now does not understand.
As she stares at these strange things, Celeborn runs up with the hobbits not far behind. He stops, and stares at his wife sitting on the ground for a few moments. Then turns to the eight guests. "You eight are guests within this land. Yet you do not respect it! You.." he tries to continue, but is cut off by Legolas. "With all respect, Lord, I had nothing to do with this. If I had seen it in the beginning I surely would have stopped it at once." Legolas sincerely tells him.
"So would I!" Boromir and Gimli demand.
"Aragorn is it true that these three had nothing to do with this?"
"Yes, Lord, but I would have stopped it too," Aragorn tries without success.
" Very well, you three, Boromir, Legolas, and Gimli, are excused." so they leave.
"But Lord!" Aragorn tries again.
"You, Aragorn, provided the hobbits with the ale. That makes you just as guilty as them," he demands "Now I must get the Lady to bed."
So he walks over to Galadriel who is sitting on the ground still mesmerized by the flying fires. He kneels down beside her and puts a hand on her golden head. She looks at him, and he kisses her forehead. Gimli the dwarf is peering from a short distance away. Some that saw him at that moment could swear that he looked jealous at this sight.
"Time for bed," he said softly to his wife.
"Why?" she asked.
"You just have to, ok?"
She lets out a sigh then says "If I must." So she puts her arms around his neck and he picks her up. She lays her head on his chest and looks up at him and the fireflies around them. "Hey Celeborn the fire is still floating around us." she told him. Celeborn looks up at Aragorn.
"I'll tell you later," Aragorn said.
"Yeah!"
He carries Galadriel to their white bed and lays her upon it. The four hobbits and man follow him there.
"Celeborn, I'm going to go to sleep now, ok. At least the flying fires went away. Hey I get the name firefly now!" and with that she gave a last laugh and fell to sleep, or past out. Celeborn kissed her head and turned to the five culprits standing in his doorway. He has a mad, evil look in his eyes and all they can think, besides run, is "Oh Damn!"
A/N: I had so much fun writing this story. Hope you love it! Stay tuned for more chapters! Please review!
Ale: It's Addicting
Chapter 1 - A Strange night in Lorien
This was a fair night in the land of Lorien. The stars shining high above. Every golden leaf glimmering in the moon light. The fellowship of the One Ring was taking some time to be surrounded by the slender of this ageless land. Their quest seemed meaningless under the leafs of this wood. In fact this night the hobbits were taking some time to have a bit of ale, which Aragorn had provided for them.
Beneath a tall tree and surrounded by some low bushes they sat in slender. Very merry they were at this time in each others company. They had no thoughts beyond that tree and those bushes. Though this would be a strange night indeed.
In the grey dwellings of that night Galadriel, queen of Lorien, was taking a walk beneath her wood. Suddenly and to her surprise she spotted the merry folk drinking their ale and smoking their long wooden pipes. Things that they have had little opportunity to do during their long journey. She glares over one of the bushes at this strange event within Lorien.
"Never before have such acts been performed within the walls of Lorien," she tells them.
"We are sorry, Lady, we didn't know," they said surprised by her appearing.
"What are you drinking anyways?"
"It's ale, and some of finest we've tasted, brought to us by Strider," Sam tells her.
"Is it really good?"she asks.
"Yes very, would you like some?" Frodo offers.
"Maybe I will try some hobbit drink. What harm could it cause?"
The hobbits are very surprised by this. Yet, she steps within the circle of bushes and tree. She sits beside Frodo on the fair grass. Frodo hands her a mug of ale and she drinks it slowly.
"Not bad" she told the hobbits, putting a smile on their faces. And so began one of the strangest nights under the trees of Lorien.
Galadriel had never tasted such a drink. Not even across the wide sea. This would be a night that she would never forget the rest of her long immortal life, what she could remember of it at least.
"From where does this drink come?" Galadriel asked the hobbits.
"We don't know. Although us hobbits have drunken it for many years," Pippen answers.
"Well it should have come to Lorien sooner. This a very good drink."
Many hours the hobbits and elf sat under the woods of Lorein. Drinking their ale and smoking their pipes. Although Galadriel took no pipe. She seemed to be very content with the new drink she had been given.
"Would you like another pint Galadriel?" Merry askes.
"We have pints?" Pippen said astonished.
"Yes didn't you know?" Merry tells him.
"No, nobody tells me anything. Give me one!" Pippen said taking a pint from Merry.
"Well would you like one Galadriel?" he asked.
"I probably shouldn't" she tells him. "OK" he says. "But I will!" she said as she greedily grabs it out of the hobbit's astonished hand. They sat their drinking and smoking for another hour at least. Galadriel loved this new found drink. Maybe even a little too much.
"Galadriel I don't think that you should have any more," Frodo told her.
"Why not?"
"You're drunk."
"No I'm not," she demands and tries to get up but falls back to the luckily soft ground.
"Yes you are."
"Don't you yell at me little bunny! Hey bunnies can talk! That's cool!"
"I think you've had quite enough," Sam said while trying to grab the mug of ale from the elf. But she pulled it back and drank more of the addicting drink. Once she was done with that mug she asked "Please sir I want some more! Can you hand me another please, little squirrel!"
"My name is Samwise" he protested without success.
"Samwise the sqirrel!"
She got her wish for more. She drank more of this addicting drink. So she became more and more drunk. The hobbits see that she can't stop.
"Sam go get Celeborn," Frodo told him.
"Why should I? Why don't you?" Sam protested.
"Celeborn needs to get her to bed. So I asked you to get him."
"No, you told me to. Stop telling me to do stuff for you!"
"I just want you to get Celeborn."
"What if I say no?" Sam asked and stands up. Frodo stands in from of him. They stare at each other for a while.
"Fight! Fight!" Pippen and Merry yell. At this Sam and Frodo attack each other. They fall over one of the bushes into a puddle of water. At this moment Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir, and Legolas spot them and rush over to break them up. Aragorn and Boromir grab Frodo, Gimli and Legolas grab Sam and get them seperated.
"What is going on here?" Aragorn asked.
"The rabbit started it," Galadriel said from on the ground, behind the bush. Aragorn looks over the bush at the drunken elf. "Hello! Want a drink?" she offered then took another drink and falls back laughing. Then he looked back at the hobbits with a glare in his eyes.
"What did you hobbits do?" Aragorn asked sternly.
"We just gave her a bit of ale," they cried "You gave it to us!"
"You stupid half lings!" Boromir yelled.
"Lady are you ok?" Legolas asked her.
She sat back up and her laughing ceased as she answered him. "I'm fine fellow elf, why wouldn't I be? These nice little squirrels and rabbits gave me some, um, um, well I don't know what it was," she said.
"I'm going to get the Lord!" Legolas demanded.
"No Don't!" she yells. She gets up to protest, and attempts to run over to Legolas. However, her foot catches a root of the tree and she tips over it landing on her face. Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn rush over to help her up.
"Are you ok Galadriel?" Gimli asks as he grabs her arm to help her up.
"Oh! I'm fine," she says laughing. The three help her to her feet and set her down by the giant tree. She falls on her back laughing.
Galadriel opens her eyes and looks up at the trees. She has finally stopped laughing. Now the hallucinations begin to come over her eyes. She begins to see ents walking in the trees. So she starts up in song. "The ents go marching one by one hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching one by one hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching one by one, the little one stops to suck his thumb. The ents go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain."
"We really need to get Celeborn," Legolas said.
"Yes we do, but I'll be to blame too. I don't want to know what kind of punishment the Lord would put on me," Aragorn tells them while Galadriel was still laying on the ground singing. "The ents go marching two by two hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching two by two hurrah hurrah, The ents go marching two by two, the little one stops to tie his shoe. The ents go marching down to the ground to get out of the rain." Galadriel continues to sing the song.
In all the commotion the four hobbits try to slip away unseen through the bushes. They don't want to be there once Celeborn finally arrives after the Lady's long protest. However, Aragorn spots them and steps in front of the bush.
"Where d you think you're going?" Aragron asked the hobbits.
"We're, um, well, you see...," they said while jumping to their feet.
"The Lord is going to have great punishment for the five of us," Aragorn said.
"So we don't have to tell him?!" Pippen tried.
"We have to tell him. He'll find out anyways. Even if we don't tell him, he'll find out and have a greater punishment for us. Dang it!!" Aragorn said.
"Frodo why did you offer her ale?!" Sam asked.
"I did not!"
"Yes you did."
"Don't blame it all on me."
"You did it!"
"Fine! So what if I did?! You all didn't stop me so that makes you at fault too!"
"Why I oughtta!"
"You oughtta what?" Frodo asked taunting him.
Sam lungs at Frodo and knocks him to the ground. They start to wrestle. Pippin is rutting for Frodo and Merry for Sam.
"Go Frodo! Get him!" Pippin yells.
"On Sam! Kick him where it counts!" Merry yelled.
"Do you think we should brake up the half lings?" Boromir asked Aragorn.
"No. They should work this out by themselves. We'll brake them up in a few minutes if they don't stop.
It went on like this for about five or so minutes. Then Aragorn and Boromir decide it's time for them to stop. So they go to brake them up, but it doesn't quite work. Boromir has his nose broken by punch from Frodo. Aragorn is hit where it counts by Sam and they both retreat in pain.
So Legolas and Gimli decide to try to brake them up. Gimli grabs Frodo and Legolas grabs Sam. Frodo gives Gimli a black eye, and Sam kicks Legolas where it counts as well. They both retreat in pain.
Finally Galadriel stands up and yells at them. "Stop!!!" She demands. So they separate. However, she goes right back to the ground laughing.
"You four go get Celeborn now! And no more fighting!" Aragorn demands.
"Fine!" they said and stuck out their tongues at him. So he slaps them on their heads. They then ran off to find Celeborn. Frodo tripped Sam as they were running so they start to fight again. Aragorn yells at them and they stop, and run off.
"Lord we must come in," they said when they got to his doorway.
"Very well," he says so they walk over to him "have you seen Galadriel tonight? She seems to be missing."
"Yeah, uh, about that..." Frodo said and the four told him the story of that night.
"You idiot hobbits! That drink should never have been brought into Lorien!"
"Strider brought it to us!" Sam protested.
"And I shall deal with him in due time. Now, take me to Galadriel!" he demands.
Meanwhile Legolas, Gimli, Boromir and Aragorn sat with Galadriel. She was still laughing singing. She kept going between songs, from 'The ents go marching' to 'Coconuts'. The Coconut song goes, as she knows it, 'I've got a lovely bunch of coconut, diddidiididdi, all stading in a row. Big ones small ones some the size of your head.'
Galadriel stops singing and looks with wonder at little lights flying around her. They keep coming on and going off. Very exciting to a drunk elf.
"Why are there little fires flying around us?" She asked in wonder.
"They are only fireflies Lady," Gimli told her.
"Wow! That is so cool! Fire can fly all around, yet we not get burnt by them landing on us! Wow!" so she looked with wonder at these strange flying, flickering lights. Things that she has known many years, but now does not understand.
As she stares at these strange things, Celeborn runs up with the hobbits not far behind. He stops, and stares at his wife sitting on the ground for a few moments. Then turns to the eight guests. "You eight are guests within this land. Yet you do not respect it! You.." he tries to continue, but is cut off by Legolas. "With all respect, Lord, I had nothing to do with this. If I had seen it in the beginning I surely would have stopped it at once." Legolas sincerely tells him.
"So would I!" Boromir and Gimli demand.
"Aragorn is it true that these three had nothing to do with this?"
"Yes, Lord, but I would have stopped it too," Aragorn tries without success.
" Very well, you three, Boromir, Legolas, and Gimli, are excused." so they leave.
"But Lord!" Aragorn tries again.
"You, Aragorn, provided the hobbits with the ale. That makes you just as guilty as them," he demands "Now I must get the Lady to bed."
So he walks over to Galadriel who is sitting on the ground still mesmerized by the flying fires. He kneels down beside her and puts a hand on her golden head. She looks at him, and he kisses her forehead. Gimli the dwarf is peering from a short distance away. Some that saw him at that moment could swear that he looked jealous at this sight.
"Time for bed," he said softly to his wife.
"Why?" she asked.
"You just have to, ok?"
She lets out a sigh then says "If I must." So she puts her arms around his neck and he picks her up. She lays her head on his chest and looks up at him and the fireflies around them. "Hey Celeborn the fire is still floating around us." she told him. Celeborn looks up at Aragorn.
"I'll tell you later," Aragorn said.
"Yeah!"
He carries Galadriel to their white bed and lays her upon it. The four hobbits and man follow him there.
"Celeborn, I'm going to go to sleep now, ok. At least the flying fires went away. Hey I get the name firefly now!" and with that she gave a last laugh and fell to sleep, or past out. Celeborn kissed her head and turned to the five culprits standing in his doorway. He has a mad, evil look in his eyes and all they can think, besides run, is "Oh Damn!"
A/N: I had so much fun writing this story. Hope you love it! Stay tuned for more chapters! Please review!